1 Corinthians 1 28
He chose the things that are unimportant and despised by the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are,
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EAS 1 Corinthians 1:28God chose to use things that people think are useless. People who belong to this world do not like those things. They think that they have no value. God did this so that the things that seem important would become unimportant.
ERV 1 Corinthians 1:28And God chose what the world thinks is not important—what the world hates and thinks is nothing. He chose these to destroy what the world thinks is important.
ASV 1 Corinthians 1:28and the base things of the world, and the things that are despised, did God choose, yea and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought the things that are: